CSE HTML Validation

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:53 pm

GRRR!!!! The below has my thinker going full speed and I can't seem to find this anywhere. Anyone had this problem? The only docs I can find that even contain that is abuse templates.

Found an out of place document type declaration (<!DOCTYPE ... >). The DOCTYPE should normally be the first line of the document. An exception is for XML based documents where the first line is normally the XML declaration (<?xml ... >) and the second line is the document type declaration.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

What page is it? Is there a space before it?

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:30 am

Look in your theme/forums directory. You will find these littered thru the *.tpl files.

registered · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:56 am

floppydrivez, yes, unfortunately, we have not gotten to cleaning up BBtoNuke as a part of RN to make the forums, private messages and members list to be XHTML compliant. There is a thread here by Gremmie and 64bitguy which discusses how to do this though.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:47 am

Well its only on line 22 of the source for the front page. So it leads me to believe its not happening in a .tpl file.

Code:

<title>Clan Themes Making Clans Look Good ! - Clan Themes</title>


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">


<html>


<head>

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:51 am

Found it! In header.php in function head()!

registered · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:06 am

Well, you want the DOCTYPE in header.php....the other ones come from the forum integration problem mentioned in that thread.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:08 am

Where is that thread you speak of?

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:13 am

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts11738-highlight-.html

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:18 am

*Bookmarked*

thanks

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:55 am

Sure...and that reminds me I'll have to redo those edits when I go to RN2.10.01.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:20 pm

To fix this, I moved the questionable error to the very top of the document nearly to look something like the below. (Note: All corresponding javascript you have here needs to be put inside an existing body tag (most likely your themes head.php or head.html))

Code:

define('NUKE_HEADER', true);


require_once("mainfile.php");


    echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">\n";


    echo "<html>\n";

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:05 pm

Gremmie wrote:

Sure...and that reminds me I'll have to redo those edits when I go to RN2.10.01.

I suppose its time to squash this issue once-and-for-all. I have a new project open in our bug tracker (.02) if you are willing to tackle it.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:44 pm

floppydrivez wrote:

To fix this, I moved the questionable error to the very top of the document nearly to look something like the below. (Note: All corresponding javascript you have here needs to be put inside an existing body tag (most likely your themes head.php or head.html))

Code:

define('NUKE_HEADER', true);


require_once("mainfile.php");


    echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">\n";


    echo "<html>\n";

I'm not really sure I follow you. What error? Are you using RavenNuke? If so you just changed back to HTML 4 instead of XHTML.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:46 pm

montego wrote:

I suppose its time to squash this issue once-and-for-all. I have a new project open in our bug tracker (.02) if you are willing to tackle it.

It was easy to fix for me on my own site as I only have 1 theme. But yes, I suppose we need to roll up our sleeves and decide how to fix this for real. It will make future BBtoNuke updates a bit harder, but at least we will have XHTML compliant sites.

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:05 am

Gremmie, this is a 2.0.2 site. I didn't realize the difference in HTML/XHTML till you said something. I just like the challenge of compliance.

I switched it to XHTML 1.0 and got a shock, with 800 new errors woohoo! Time to to get addicted to this idea, I guess.

Involved Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 269

Floppy stop causing more work you dam pesky rat !

Yet again my head is hurting ! lol